From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gian Uberto Lauri" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:03:53 +0100 Message-ID: <21620.14313.322121.768484@mail.eng.it> References: Reply-To: Gian Uberto Lauri NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416902692 16418 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 08:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Raffaele Ricciardi To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 09:04:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XtB76-00039D-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:04:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtB75-0000ZJ-UE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtB6l-0000Xy-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:04:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtB6e-0001T4-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from relay.eng.it ([91.109.60.38]:35731 helo=mail.eng.it) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtB6e-0001Rp-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:04:16 -0500 Original-Received: from bms2.eng.it (unknown [192.168.10.43]) by deliver.antivirus (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE6340005; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:03:58 +0100 (CET) X-AuditID: c0a80a2b-f79896d000000f8d-b7-547437ee64f4 Original-Received: from mail.eng.it (Unknown_Domain [192.168.10.31]) by bms2.eng.it (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 74.1D.03981.EE734745; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:03:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from quigley (unknown [172.27.7.115]) by mail.eng.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3924940005; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:03:58 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-attribution: CC X-echelon-food: AMTRAK Mantis Vince Foster Unix Security Etacs TEXTA. ELF TELINT UKUSA Kosovo DEVGRP AQIM CID Sears Tower IRA SAPO X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFrrBLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVyYAWXvO4785IQg39T5SwuH37FYrHz5hs2 i81f/7I7MHvsnHWX3aNtmpnHx6e3WAKYo7hsUlJzMstSi/TtErgybhx9ylgwh79i5p9dLA2M +7i7GDk5JARMJPa/uMIMYYtJXLi3nq2LkYtDSGATo8SL18cZQRJCAj2MErfOOILYvAKCEidn PmEBsZkFdCR2br3DBmFrSyxb+JoZosZY4vWvZWC9LAKqEo/XNYDViwioSZz89pwdot5T4sKO FrBeYQEriXv7NrOC2JwC1hKdBzayQ+yNl/hx4BsTxHFWEl+fLWGCiOtIPH62EqyXTUBTovP5 a6gHBCVeHpvGCPKAhEAro8T51duZJjAKz0Jy9ywkd89CcvcCRuZVjNxJucVGeql56XqZJZsY IeGtvYPxzDTVQ4wCHIxKPLyNx4pDhFgTy4orcw8xSnAwK4nwRs0DCvGmJFZWpRblxxeV5qQW H2KU5mBREuc9XukeIiSQnliSmp2aWpBaBJNl4uCUamC0fp78o/BOWFZMRrSv50oHj7mq04xu Hn60fPV/1s5DgmuUdqXKe7hLdBzknRPYqvFS4udc3kDRnl2WmXdXSYVISJ5rPvVpmUn5yWVn +c4KbtScorraeaVCiv212GPHzrGtNwiaLilvdevCoY18SbxZDaveHe5m88x3elY+40HZ203d E4VfzfiqxFKckWioxVxUnAgA8tE+nWsCAAA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 91.109.60.38 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101147 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > I would ask an opposite question: IF you could use Emacs frames > as easily as you can use Emacs windows, in what scenarios would > you prefer using Emacs windows, and why=3F My favourite use of windows is for mail reading, sql interaction and when working on two parts of the same file or two files with a macro. For e-mail, I think you all know at least one between rmail, gnus and vm. For sql interaction a sql editing buffer and a db connection buffer are really a nice way to shot queries to a db for test and debug purposes. In these situations I feel that Emacs is "running an application" and I feel more comfortable with all the application windows in the same frame. If the frames could really be used like windows, then, it could be that I would be comfortable with separate frames. On the other hand, my favourite use of frames is on an application specific basis. One frame for e-mail, one for DB-interaction... Some version ago Emacs had a nice bug/feature that allowed you to create several WindowMaker application icons with a single Emacs instance, and using a different image for each application icon. This was nice because that let me associate a certain frame with a certain workspace (i.e. e-mail on workspace 1 and db-interaction on workspace 6) and use a click on the application icon to jump to that workspace. [Now I can just assign different images to different miniwindows.] --=20 /\ =5F=5F=5F Ubuntu: anci= ent /=5F=5F=5F/\=5F|=5F|\=5F|=5F=5F|=5F=5F=5FGian Uberto Lauri=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= African word //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico meaning "I can \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install gi=E0 sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso... Debian" Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO